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‘I don’t think any of us felt safe’ For those perceived as Muslim, life after Sept. 11 was difficult worker died that day in one of the towers.”

Chetram, 48, the vice presiRavin Chetram, of Oyster dent of the Oyster Bay-East NorBay, remembers Sept. 11, 2001 wich Chamber of Commerce, is we l l . H e re c a l l s of Indian descent, being on a Long and the family of his Island Rail Road wife, Denise train on his way to Domenech-Chetram, work in Manhattan is from Spain. Both when there was an were bor n in the announcement that United States. a plane had hit one Like other New of the World Trade Yorkers, Chetram Center towers. was horrified by the “When we got off ter rorist attacks. the train, I saw But because of his smoke,” Chetram HARJIT VIRK d a rk s k i n a n d recounted. “Outside unusual name, his Member, OBEN Penn Station, everyexperience was difone was crying. It Chamber of ferent in the weeks, was like when the Commerce months and years Hindenburg came that followed. down.”

Although his grandEven an announcer on the mother was Muslim and he has radio sounded like he was cry- many Muslim cousins, he is ing, Chetram said. “I remember Hindu. But when people see a holding my head with my hands Hindu with a wrapped head, and thinking, ‘This can’t be hap- they think he is Muslim, he said. pening.’ My brother worked in a “People saw my name, and building next door to the trade they’d assume I was Muslim,” he center, but he wasn’t there that said. “That’s OK with me, but day. He said bodies fell on the roof of his building, and a coCONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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GREEN WITH HIS wife, Roxanne, and their daughter, Danielle.

20 years later, remembering a ‘gentle giant,’ Wade Green

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Alicia Govia wears a thin metal memory band on her wrist, engraved with her

brother’s name, “Wade B. Green, 9-11-01, WTC” and an American flag, which has mostly worn off. The band isn’t pretty, she said, and she has to take it off at the airport

because it always sets off the metal detector. But it means the world to her.

Green, who was born and raised in Muttontown, was a CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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SEPT. 11, 2001 was a moment in history that left its mark on those who were there and as well as those who were not.

Some Sept. 11 recollections 20 years later My birthday is Sept. 11. In 2001 I turned on the TV to see what was going on in the world before I left for work. I saw a big hole in one of the towers. My father is a pilot and I was with him when he flew a plane around the World Trade Center a few weeks before. I remember thinking that I didn’t know how anyone could be so stupid to fly into that building.

My uncle worked in the towers and I had a hard time reaching him. I was worried. He ended up not being there. I was confused as to why anyone would do this.

My Muslim friends felt the same.

Sept. 11 was a turning point with our relationship with terrorists. Twenty years later we handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban. What a waste of money and lives.

In 2001 we were all together waving flags. Now we see major leaguers taking a knee. We have lost our way, our united way of freedom. The Taliban doesn’t stand for freedom.

Marie Gallagher I vividly remember Sept. 11. I refused to go outside and when I did I worried that something might fall from the sky and hit me.

My friend was in Florida on business.

She never returned to New York. She had her husband pack up the house. So, I lost my best friend’s presence that day.

I put the TV on after the first plane hit and I watched it continuously. It was obvious that the second plane hitting the tower was purposeful.

Sept. 11 changed everyone forever. The moral of the story is to live each day as your last. Don’t care about what people are wearing, all the stupid things in life.

After Sept. 11 all of the trivial things people once cared about didn’t matter anymore.

It was a tragedy for the families of the victims, for those who said, “Don’t forget the dry cleaning, again.” People probably

said silly things to them. I don’t think anyone does that anymore without also saying, “I love you.” Tragedy does focus your mind.

Susan Peterson I was a sales manager for a company that was having an event at Leonard’s of Great Neck and was setting up displays for a trade show. When the first plane hit we saw it on a big screen TV and I was shocked. I had to go back to our office in Brooklyn to get an additional display. On the highway I saw the second plane hit the tower and was shocked again.

I loaded up the supplies and headed back but may of the streets in Queens were closed and so was the highway so we used the side streets. When I got back to Leonard’s it was closed.

I wasn’t afraid. I didn’t think there was an invasion or an enemy among us. I think what we need to be afraid of today after leaving Afghanistan is being attacked on our soil. It could happen at any time. This is what we veterans think.

We had security after 911. We have less security today. We allowed the enemy, the Taliban, ISIS-K, ISIS to have power again.

They will have the tools and the desire to strike us. It could be a year, two years or three years. We kept a presence everywhere else. Why couldn’t we have kept 2,500 troops there?

Twenty years later … this end is a hell of a way to end this. People are upset. We should have been happy that after 20 years this came to an end.

Bob Selby In June of 2001 my future wife and I went to our prom at Windows on the World. Sept. 11 has always been a mind blowing thing to us. We had our picture taken in front of the piano there. It’s so hard to imagine the building falling down and the piano falling too.

I was in college on Sept. 11 at the University of Hartford. My friend’s uncle and father were in one of the towers for a firefighter meeting I think on the 116th floor that day. After the towers fell she called her mother and knew right away because her mother could not get in touch with them. She as inconsolable. I tried to be there for her. It was a hard day for me too to be with someone who it was a hard day for. Perhaps that’s where I get my empathy from. I’m sure so many people felt helpless to help.

I think about the people whose last resort was to either jump or burn. As human beings we think of our death as happening due to old age or a heart attack but not at work. I would never want to make that decision of jumping or burning. I watched it and still can’t wrap my head around the pain. It’s too much to think about, especially 20 years later.

Tim Charon I lived in Manhattan then and worked at Yankee Stadium at night. I heard on the radio that a plane had crashed into the trade center and I thought it was a small one. I turned on the news and saw the smoke coming out of the building. I watched the two fighter planes outside my window come across the sky.

I was off that day. Two days later I had to coordinate the blockades of streets because the president was coming soon. I had to move the trucks around so the president’s motorcade could get around. I worked with the secret service who had their [temporary] office in the Waldorf Astoria. There were 10 TVs in the room.

Even though I lived on 86th St. and York Avenue I could smell it — what was left of the World Trade Center.

Twenty years later Sept. 11 is still a sad day. I think our foreign policy is terrible. I don’t think we should have been in two endless wars. We should have focused on

chasing Osama [bin Laden] instead and the money behind him.

John Quirk I was on the Triborough Bridge working when I saw the top of the towers fall onto the other building. That was disturbing so I went home to get in touch with my kids. One of them worked across from the Pentagon. I told him to exit the building. The other one took the Path train to work in the city and I told him to stay home.

When the first plane hit I knew immediately that we were under attack. I narrowly missed being there. I remembered the first attack. I was supposed to pick up drawings on the 24th floor that day but they mailed them to me. I was usually at the trade center at lunchtime, which was when the bomb went off.

I’m a West Point graduate. I took Sept.

11 hard. And it’s still disturbing. We thought back then that that was the worst that could happen. So much more has happened since then.

Joe Casillo When my daughter called me to tell me that a plane crashed into the trade center I turned on the TV and saw that the building was burning. I found that extremely upsetting and unbelievable.

Then the other plane crashed into the other building. As I watched it coming it seemed like a cartoon. My mind couldn’t’ comprehend it.

When the first building came down I thought it was an explosion caused by a bomb that I thought someone placed in the building. I was on the phone with my daughter. When the smoke cleared I told her, “I can’t see the building.”

To this day I cannot watch the reruns of that day. I turn the TV off. I still find it so upsetting.

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Sometimes he would argue with people who were rude to him, but then he would back down. Persuading them he was Hindu was a lost cause, he explained.

“And why should I say I’m not Muslim?” he said. “If I say that, I’m saying it’s OK what they are saying.”

Sometimes he believed he was in danger. “I would be walking and people would yell to me, ‘Go back to your country!’” he said. “I have no other country to go back to.”

Harjit Virk, 33, another member of the chamber, has lived in Hicksville since 2003. He was born in India, and came to the U.S. when he was 4. He belongs to the Sikh community, and lived in Queens on Sept. 11, 2001.

Many Sikhs wear turbans and grow facial hair, Virk said, and post-9/11 was a frightening time for them. He knew of a number of people who were assaulted because they were thought to be Muslims. “[Sept. 11] seemed like a movie, and I don’t think any of us felt safe,” he said.

“When I went back to school, people would always ask me questions about myself. I’ve always had to deal with being called names, like Taliban.”

Virk said he has tried to explain to people what a Sikh is. He doesn’t wear a turban, but many of his friends and family members do.

The 20th anniversary of the attacks has made him uncomfortable, he said. “It brings back that scary pit in my stomach,” he said. “I don’t know if we will ever be healed from what happened on Sept. 11. And I don’t think I will ever feel truly safe.”

Jasmeet Kaur’s parents are from India, but she was born and raised in Rockville Centre. Like Virk, she is Sikh. Kaur, 36, was a high school student on Sept. 11 who volunteered at Mercy Hospital. “After 9/11,” she recalled, “I’d get comments while at the hospital like, ‘Go back to your country, you Muslim.’”

Kaur was also treated differently in school after the attacks, she said. People often asked her if she was Muslim. She was horrified when a girl sitting behind her in class said, “We need to blow up that whole area.”

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Her father wore a turban, and in public, Kaur said, the family “got looks.”

“When we were near the mall, someone said, ‘Look at that towel-head,’” she recalled. “[Many] Muslims don’t even wear turbans, but that’s how we are perceived, and the way Muslims are incorrectly portrayed in the media.”

Twenty years later, Kaur said, people continue to be ignorant, and need to educate themselves. The conversations should begin at home, she added.

Ali Baqueri’s family is from India and is Muslim, but he was born in the U.S., grew up in Albertson and has lived in Huntington for three years. Twenty years ago he was a senior in high school. He has

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“I’m very American, and people forget that I’m Muslim,” Baqueri, 37, said. “I went to Herricks High School. … Yes, there is racism on Long Island, but I don’t see it directed at me. If I were darker, it might be a different story.”

Kaur loves Oyster Bay. Although she lives in Woodbury, she can often be found at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park,

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taking a walk with her family.

Much has permanently changed since Sept. 11, she said. “Air travel, and any time I go to a Mets game, the security is different than it was before. But it has gotten better for Sikhs, because we have helped to educate people.”

But a temple was vandalized in Bellerose, Queens a couple of months ago. “I think the racism got heightened because of the anniversary of Sept. 11,” she said.

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“I usually go and take photos of the cerAn annual 9/11 memorial ceremony on emony,” Patricia said. “The victims’ famiSaturday that will be hosted by New York lies come, which is lovely. It’s a very solstate Sen. Jim Gaughran and his prede- emn ceremony but very moving at the cessor, former state Sen. Carl Marcellino. same time.”

Members of the Oyster Bay and Atlantic The ceremony, which takes place every Steamer fire departments, the clergy and year to memorialize those who died, was the Oyster Bay Community Band will also held last year during the peak of the corobe there. This Saturday marks the 20th navirus pandemic. To abide by social disanniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11. tancing guidelines, the ceremony was live “ T h e 2 0 t h a n n ive r s a r y b r i n g s streamed on Gaughran’s Facebook page enhanced context because we’re thinking and there was limited seating for family back to what happened and the fact that members of those who died in the attacks. we lost so many brave “This ceremony is men and women 20 really all about rememyears ago and have bering the people who been through so much perished,” Gaughran since,” Gaughran said. said. “We show the pho“Even 20 years later I tos of the victims and think it’s nice that a lot read their names; the of the families [of the victims’ families are victims] do come back. there — it’s really a I hope they receive very nice, peaceful ceresome comfort in seeing mony to honor them.” that the community Academics and air wants to remember pollution experts have and honor their loved described the dust from ones who were lost.” the collapsed towers as The Memorial fea“wildly toxic,” made up tures a beam from the of more than 2,500 conWorld Trade Center taminants, including Twin Towers obtained glass, lead and mercury. by the Atlantic SteamWhen the planes er Fire Department crashed into the towers, and a remembrance 24,000 gallons of jet fuel wall inscribed with the ignited a fire that Courtesy Patricia Marcellino spread to 100,000 tons of names of local victims.

“We had a number STATE SENATOR JIM Gaughran organic debris and of individuals from made the decision to continue the 230,000 gallons of transour community die annual ceremony, after taking over former, heating and diethat day,” Marcellino for Marcellino in 2018. sel oils in the buildings, said. “I wanted a setting off a giant toxic memorial in Oyster plume of soot and dust Bay so the victims’ from pulverized building materials, families could have somewhere close to according to a Centers for Disease Control home to mourn their loved ones.” and Prevention report.

Marcellino originally acquired the The fires continued to burn during the funding from Albany for the Oyster Bay rescue and recovery operations at ground memorial because the town’s annual Sept. zero, and workers were exposed to chemi11 ceremony was held at Burns Park in cals like asbestos, carbon monoxide, Massapequa, he said, too far away for hydrogen sulfide, crystalline silica and Oyster Bay residents. other metals and particulates. Those “I consider it my finest achievement,” exposed to World Trade Center dust are Marcellino said. “With the help of Gover- more likely to develop lung problems, nor Pataki and Supervisor John Venditto respiratory symptoms, and sinus problems and his manpower, we were able to make or asthma, according to the Never Forget this memorial a reality.”

Project. The World Trade Center Health When Marcellino lost to Gaughran in Program also recognizes certain mental 2018, Atlantic Steamer Fire Co. #1 and the health conditions, digestive disorders, Oyster Bay Fire Department Co. #1 staff musculoskeletal disorders and cancers as contacted Gaughran’s office to see if the being related to Sept. 11. annual commemoration of Sept. 11 would “No one told anyone about the health continue. Gaughran contacted Marcellino issues they would get down the road from and asked the former senator to co-host the aftermath,” Gaughran said. “It’s the ceremony because he began the tradi- important we honor those who have tion with the building of the memorial. passed from related illnesses over the Marcellino’s wife, Patricia, told years since the attack and not just those Gaughran they had been given photos of who died the day of. Their sacrifices are the last event by former staffer Charlotte just as significant.”

Longo who with Kathy Wilson, worked on Wade Brian Green, who died when he the event over the years. Marcellino was 42, will be added to the list of names at shared those 2018 photos, the layout for the CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

COMMUNITY UPDATE Wednesday, Sept. 15

Friday, Sept. 10 Movie at the Library Gold Coast Public Library Annex, 50 Railroad Ave., Glen Head, 2 to 4 p.m. Watch “Lilies of the Field” (1963) at the library.

Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier), an itinerant handyman driving through the Arizona desert, is persuaded by three East German immigrant nuns to build a chapel and teach them English.

Tour the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Begining at 12 p.m. via zoom, go on a virtual tour of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, the former home and studio of two of America’s foremost abstract expressionist painters, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, containing evidence of their creative processes. Register via email at seaclifflibrary@hotmail.com.

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9/11 Remembrance Ceremony Begining at noon at Morgan Memorial Park in Glen Cove, there will be an outdoor memorial ceremony that will include local dignitaries, clergy, veterans and first responders, as well as local musicians.

Sunday, Sept. 12 Waterfront Festival and Concert The Town of Oyster Bay will host a Free Family-Fun Waterfront Festival and Free Concert at the Joseph J. Saladino Memorial Marina at TOBAY Beach. In addition to the free concert begining at noon, the day of free family fun will feature marine and outdoor exhibits, a children’s snapper derby, police boat demonstrations and much more.

Town of Oyster Bay 9/11 Rememberance Ceremony

Beginn at 6 p.m. at the Theodore Roosevelt Park Western Waterfront 9/11 Memorial on West End Avenue in Oyster Bay, the names of Oyster Bay residents lost in the Sept. 11 attacks will be read and memorialized. The town’s Oyster Bay 9/11 Memorial – featuring a steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center – is inscribed with the names of residents lost on September 11, 2001.

nation event, will be held from 10 a.m. to noon in the parking lot of Branch Real Estate Group at 203 Glen Cove Ave in Sea Cliff.

Both Covid vaccines and flu shots will be administered by The Med Station. The event will also have musical performances, giveaways and raffles from local businesses. The event is only open to those receiving a vaccine and their support system. More information can be found at www.lyn org/vax.

National Teddy Bear Day w/ Author Kathleen Bart Meet and greet local author, illustrator, and teddy bear expert Kathleen Bart. Bart will be autographing, and personalizing copies of her books at Bart is an Oyster Bay resident and the research for her book “A Tale of Two Teddies” was conducted at Sagamore Hill.

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day for the forseeable future. There will be two shows each week, at 7 p.m. and at 8:30 p.m., each an hour long.

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Virtual Book Talk With Hunter College Prof. Leah Garrett The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County presents a virtual book discussion taking place at both 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., each lasting an hour. Leah Garrett, the director of Jewish and Hebrew Studies at Hunter College, will speak about her recent book “X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II.” Described as “part history and part mystery,” the book tells the largely unknown story of an elite group of German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most

Begining at 2 p.m. at the Oyster Bay East Norwich Public Library. A true story of a small-town farmer taking on one of the largest agricultural and food manufacturing corporations. A third-generation farmer is sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight the giant legal battle, Percy joins forces with an up-andcoming attorney and an environmental activist to fight one of the most monumental cases all the way up to the Supreme Court.

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Glen Cove Senior Center Rose Shoppe Boutique is open Mon - Fri, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Oyster Bay Town Board will meet on Sept. 14 at 10 a.m.

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Become a better version of yourself Healthy habits you should hold on to post-pandemic

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t’s easy to feel like we’re never going to get our lives back from what Covid-19 has wrought. While the Delta wave continues to impact our well-being, try to look at what might considered a silver lining to this pandemic. Have you noticed you’ve developed healthier habits in the past year and half? Spending more time outside? Talking more with your partner, or re-connecting with old friends? You’re not the only one.

Many are reporting a better connection with family and friends, picking up new hobbies and even increasing their physical activity.

Some changes — including positive ones — came into our lives by necessity during the pandemic. Here are some healthy habits to come out of the pandemic, that you will want maintain for the long haul.

Appreciating nature As many workplaces temporarily closed or moved to a working-from-home model, people found time to take meaningful breaks, often spending their lunches, mornings or evenings accompanied by green scenery.

Connecting with nature is one of the key pillars to supporting your mental health. If you’re returning to your workplace, why not try and start a new habit of walking at lunchtime? Or when meeting with a friend or colleague for coffee, opt for sitting outside.

Getting physical While some of us found that our fitness goals took a bit of a hit from the pandemic, many actually increased their physical activity. Reports indicate that globally, those who exercised one to two times per week before Covid19 have now increased their activity by 88 per cent.

A return to normality and an office schedule can be daunting if you’ve recently picked up a new healthy habit.

Time can be a big factor in delaying exercising, so make an effort to schedule your exercise routine into your work day, just like a meeting or a lunch break. As restrictions lift on in-person classes, you can return to gyms or yoga studios for regular solo or group workouts if that appeals to your or continue with your at-home exercise routine.

Making time for ‘me’ When we were in shutdown mode last year, we suddenly realized we had some time to kill. A lot of time.

Many folks took this ample opportunity to learn new skills or refresh old ones, sometimes even starting a project they’d be putting off for a few years.

Mental health experts tell us that taking on these tasks in the middle of a pandemic was actually more beneficial than just killing boredom. Psychiatrist Dr. John Reilly says that doing regular mental challenges trains our mental pathways, improving their effectiveness. “Your ability to reason and make good decisions depends on how well your brain interprets and processes information.

By challenging yourself, you improve the effectiveness of your mental pathways, and refresh old or unhelpful

thought patterns.”

“If you’ve found something you enjoy doing during the pandemic, try keeping it up for 30 minutes twice a week,” he says. “Or if you find you’re short on time, instead of watching TV in the evenings, try a Sudoku or a crossword, or even a documentary instead of your regular show.”

Connecting more Anecdotal evidence indicates that many are connecting on a more emotional level with their housemates, partners and families. Psychologists are telling us that people have become more tolerant of each other — despite some initial frustration of being in close quarters during lockdown.

Dr Reilly says that the uncertainty of the future has forced us to re-evaluate the foundations of our own lives, and that’s led to some relationships coming closer together.

“Quality time,” says Dr Reilly, “is crucial to keeping this increased connectedness going.” You can adapt what we began at the start of the pandemic. For those living with their partner, you could schedule a regular date night at home where you make each other dinner or complete a puzzle together. For those looking to maintain their positive relationships with friends and family, if you are not able to do an in-person visit, try staying in touch over weekly calls or video chats.

Being adaptable While change can be uncertain, chaotic and challenging — it does have a silver lining. It teaches our body to combat stress.

There’s a reason why so many news reports are comparing the current circumstances to World War II. Those who lived through the Great Depression and World War II faced all kinds of challenges that younger generations are only now beginning to get a glimpse of. Coming out of the Depression led our ancestors to adjust to a different kind of life, and psychologists believe that the coronavirus could do the very same for younger generations.

“Simple things like the way we greet each other are likely to change, but more impactful changes like the way we connect with each other on a deeper, more authentic level are likely to come out of the pandemic,” says Dr Reilly.

While this change to being more resilient will likely happen naturally, there are some steps you can take to support your personal growth.

“Think positively; consciously change negative thoughts if they cross your mind,” says Dr Reilly. “You can also try listening to a guided meditation and anchoring yourself in the present.”

Above photo: The Covid-19 pandemic will eventually come to an end, but that doesn’t mean you should give up on healthy habits you adopted during these trying times.

It all starts at home Health boosters you may already have on hand When it comes to good health, everyone knows the steps to take, whether it’s making time to get to the gym, researching the latest superfoods, and so forth.

While these avenues to health certainly can be beneficial, everyone — and that means both kids and adults — also can turn to many health boosters in their own homes to help them achieve their goals of living healthier lifestyles.

Lemon water: Lemon water is now being touted as a beneficial addition to one’s daily diet. Lemon water can help reduce acidity in the body, including removing uric acid, a main cause of inflammation. Lemons contain pectin fiber, which can aid in weight loss by helping to fight hunger pangs. Lemons also contain a load of vitamin C, which can give the immune system a boost.

are you waiting for? Cycling is an excellent form of cardiovascular exercise, and riders can tailor their intensity levels to correlate to their ages and abilities. Many folks — kids and adults — find cycling an enjoyable form of activity because it gets them outside and often doesn’t feel like exercise.

Fruits and vegetables: Most of us don’t eat nearly enough of fruits and veggies! Produce offers many of the vitamins and minerals people look to supplements to provide. Including diverse fruit and vegetable choices in one’s diet can improve health in various ways, including providing a boost to the immune system.

Yogurt: Probiotic pills can help return healthy bacteria to the digestive system, but so can eating yogurt regularly. Look for yogurts that contain live and active cultures for optimal benefit.

Honey: Honey is a valuable superfood that can boost overall health. In addition to soothing sore throats, it can serve as an antibiotic and wound healer, provide allergy protection, increase calcium absorption, and provide a source of energy without the insulin spike associated with other forms of sugar. Just remember, not to give honey to infants under one year old.

Cycling: If you haven’t yet during the pandemic dusts off that bicycle that has been hiding in your garage, what

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eople routinely visit their dentist for evaluation of suspected dental disease. Trigeminal neuralgia (TN), a facial nerve compression syndrome, frequently causes pain in the mouth and teeth. “As such,” according to neurosurgeon Michael H. Brisman, M.D., NSPC Brain & Spine Surgery, “there are commonly overlapping concerns between the TN patient and the dentist.”

How is TN similar to other dental problems?

TN can cause pain anywhere in the face, from the top of the head to the bottom of the jaw. TN most often causes pain in the cheek and jaw areas, including the gums and teeth.

How is TN different from other dental problems?

The critical difference in symptoms is that TN patients will experience attacks of pains that are sudden, brief, sharp, and excruciating, usually described as either “electric shocks” or “stabbing.” These pains usually radiate to include a much larger area than just one tooth.

Is TN frequently confused with dental disease?

Yes. TN patients often experience severe pain in their teeth and gums, which frequently leads them to visit a dentist. Dentists may suspect a dental cause for the pain and offer various procedures to try to help.

Can TN be caused by problems with the teeth or gums, or by dental procedures?

No. TN is usually caused by a small blood vessel compressing the trigeminal nerve at the root entry zone, an area where the nerve enters the brain.

Can dental work cause nerve pain syndromes?

Yes, but very rarely. Signs that suggest a procedure may have caused a nerve pain syndrome include: (1) the pain syndrome occurs soon after the procedure; (2) the nerve affected was in the region of the procedure; (3) the pain is predominantly dull or achy in nature, and (4) there may be numbness in the affected area. Such nerve injury pain usually improves with time.

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A veteran-laden Hofstra women’s soccer team is fueled for a return to the NCAA Tournament this fall after its abridged spring season ended in heartbreak.

Hofstra, which entered September ranked 25th in the national coaches poll, returned nearly every starter from a 7-1-1 team where the Pride led the nation in scoring per game, but were denied a chance to compete on the sport’s biggest stage following a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Elon in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) semifinals. The rare spring season due to the pandemic created a far shorter than normal offseason.

“Last season came to an abrupt end and were deeply disappointed, but the fortunate thing this year was it was a quick turnaround,” said 16-year head coach Simon Riddiough, MAtthEW VOWiNkEL LED the Pride with 6 whose team opened with a 4-1 start goals and 5 assists on the way to earning Allafter wins against Stony Book, Alba- CAA First Team honors. ny, Brown and Columbia along with a “She is a supreme athlete,” said Riddinear upset of seventh-ranked Penn State in 2-1 defeat. “It is good to get back ough of Pearse. “We’re excited about her future.” at it.”

Another backyard product that RiddiThe Pride were tabbed as the unanimous CAA favorite with three players ough hopes makes strides this fall is junior forward Cailey Welch, a former earning pre-season conference player of the year accolades including senior for- standout at North Shore High School who ward Miri Taylor, fifth-year midfielder has battled back from injuries.

Lucy Porter and junior defender Anja Suttner. Forward Lucy Sheppard and mid- Pride men eye CAA crown The Hofstra men’s soccer team will fielder Jordan Littleboy, who like Porter are using an extra year of eligibility look to get over the hump this fall of allowed because of last year’s shortened achieving its NCAA Tournament aspiseason, received preseason All-CAA hon- rations following three years of near misses. orable mention nods.

The Pride were knocked off in the Porter, a reigning First Team-All American, notched her first goal in a 3-0 CAA finals by James Madison in penalty win at Columbia Sept. 2. Heavy defensive kicks last April making the third season a focus on Porter has paved way for seven row its season ended in a shootout to the different scorers led by four goals apiece Dukes on the conference tournament from Taylor and Sheppard. Freshmen stage.

“It is tough to take, but it makes you Georgia Brown and Ellen Halseth have stronger,” said 33-year head coach Richboth notched two goals.

Brown, a freshman from England, pro- ard Nuttall. “I feel like we have a well-balvides Hofstra with a bright future along anced team this season.”

Hofstra returns 10 starters from last with local newcomers Leah Iglesias (Carle Place) and Olivia Pearse (Seaford), who season’s 5-2-3 team including preseason scored her first career goal in Hofstra’s 4-0 All-CAA selections Matthew Vowinkel, George O’Malley, Storm Strongin and win against Brown on Aug., 27.

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13 EACH YEAR THERE is a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony at Oyster Bay, which includes photos of the victims.

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Honoring the dead CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 the memorial and to this year’s reading of the names during the remembrance ceremony. Green was a field service representative for Thomson Financial and was at Windows on the World in the North tower setting up computer equipment for a conference, his widow, Roxanne, said. His remains were never found.

“Even though it’s so many years later I hope that Wade’s family has some comfort in seeing his name recognized and honored at the memorial and the ceremony,” Gaughran said.

The ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday at the Theodore Roosevelt Park Western Waterfront 9/11 Memorial on West End Avenue in Oyster Bay.

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FORMER STATE SEN. Carl Marcellino decided to build the memorial because the town’s annual Sept. 11 ceremony, held in Massapequa, is too far away for Oyster Bay residents.

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A 20-year tribute Hamlet of Oyster Bay and surrounding villages 9/11 victims remembered ‘We will never forget,’ read a popular sticker following the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Twenty years later we continue to honor those from the hamlet of Oyster Bay and the surrounding villages who lost their lives on that infamous day. We continue to heal, grieve and find hope for the future, while remembering an unforgettable day. The following 24 people will be remembered as fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, and brothers who grew up here, lived here as adults or served in our local fire department.

ADRIANE V. SCIBETTA

ANDREW STEVEN ZUCKER

BART J. RUGGIERE

BERNARD E. PATTERSON

BROOKE ALEXANDRA JACKMAN

CHRISTOPHER CIAFARDINI

CHRISTOPHER PAUL SLATTERY

DANIEL P. TRANT

EDWARD J. PAPA

FRANCIS JOHN SADOCHA

FREDERICK THOMAS VARACCHI

GABRIELA SILVINA WAISMAN

JOHN “PEPE” SALERNO

JONATHAN S. RYAN

JOSEPH A. KELLY

JOSHUA S. VITALE

JOSHUA TODD ARON

LAURENCE POLATSCH

LESTER VINCENT MARINO

MICHAEL TADDONIO

PETER VICTOR GENCO

THOMAS A. MAHON

TIMOTHY BYRNE

WADE GREEN

‘I was hoping he would show up one day, but . . .’ thing was churning in my head. Is he field-service representative for Thompson alive or not? And I was hoping he would Financial for four years. He was a trouble- show up one day, but that never hapshooter for technical issues, and was in pened.”

She went to the city morgue, too, but the World Trade Center’s north tower the wasn’t permitted inside. Feeling helpless, morning of Sept. 11, at the restaurant Windows on the World, setting up equip- she joined others searching for their loved ones. “A lot of us were sitting on the roadment for a conference.

He wasn’t supposed to be there, Govia side watching as the big trucks went by said. “Wade worked in the tristate area,” with body parts,” she said. “It was hard she said. “I heard he switched with some- doing that.”

At one point she one that morning to had a glimmer of be assigned to the h o p e , when she World Trade Center.” received an email sayRoxanne Green, ing that Green was in Wade’s wife, was also a hospital in Manhatbusy in Manhattan tan. But when she that day, at Bear Steacalled the hospital, rns, where for 20 years she quickly learned it she worked in technolwas a hoax. “That ogy services. She was hoax was done to so in her office, at 3rd many family memAve n u e a n d 5 4 t h bers,” she said. “I Street. don’t know what the After the attacks, goal was.” she recounted, “I Wade’s remains walked to Penn Stawere never recovered. tion, and when the He was 42 when he trains started running died. again, got the first It took Roxanne train out. Things were three months to come popping around in my to terms with the fact head but … I thought that he had died. The WADE GREEN DIED in the north maybe he would be family held a memoritower of the World Trade Center on safe.” al service.

When the phones Sept. 11, 2001.

Govia said that she were working again and her father knew Roxanne made many calls to see if anyone had seen her hus- right away that Green hadn’t survived. band. Then her worst fears were realized “It’s like the days after, I was living in a at 6 p.m. Wade’s supervisor called to say dream,” she recalled. “It was the most surreal in life I ever remember feeling. he had been at Windows on the World.

In the days that followed, Roxanne Like the rug was pulled from under me.”

Crying, she said that 20 years still feels went to Manhattan many times. She put like yesterday, and that the week of Sept. posters up with Wade’s photo on them 11 is always hard for her. “My brother was downtown, and gave his toothbrush and comb to workers using DNA to identify so full of life — the last person you would think would die young,” she said. “He was the remains of the victims.

“To financially support my family, I someone you would be drawn to, a gentle giant, very handsome, with a smile to die had to submit forms for the families of 9/11,” she said. “During that time, every- for.”

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WADE AND ROXANNE married in 1994.

Roxanne and Wade met at a barbecue, and married in 1994. They moved to Westbury, where they raised their daughter, Danielle, who is now 24. Wade was a family man, Roxanne said. She still remembers Danielle’s first birthday, when Green pushed his daughter up and down the street in a new wagon. He missed so much, Roxanne said — their daughter’s graduation from high school, from college, and her birthdays.

Alicia Green Govia was the youngest of four. Wade, the middle son, saw what was involved in raising an infant and helped their mother raise Alicia.

“We were 12 years apart, so I was the baby,” she said. “He spoiled me to death. I remember he would sit and watch cartoons with me when I was 5. He was a teenager, but he would watch them with me.”

Wade was the last child to leave home, Govia said, and his parents adored him.

“When he came into the house he would always say, ‘Hello, family,’” she said. “And he sang in the church choir at the Church of Advent. He was a great father and a wonderful uncle. He always included my

girls in anything he did.”

Becoming a single parent when Wade died led Roxanne to change careers. She worked for a number of school districts, including Glen Cove, and eventually become a computer teacher in the Herricks School District.

“I realized when being a single parent, commuting was not the way to go,” she said. “I wanted to be with my daughter, and I’ve been watching her grow and enjoying all of the vacations and holidays with her.”

Green’s name was added this year to the Sept. 11 memorial in Oyster Bay. His name will be read, along with the other local people who died, on Saturday.

In 2006 and in 2010, Roxanne read her husband’s name at the memorial ceremony in Lower Manhattan. She was nervous, she said, but read his and nine other names correctly.

“It was hard,” she recalled. “But I wanted to give Wade a personal tribute and let him know that we are thinking of him, even though he is not here anymore.”

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think everyone will concede that the summer went by too quickly. But despite the speed at which two months have passed, the world around us continued to function, and both good and bad things happened. In this short period of time, New Yorkers have seen the resignation of their governor and our first major storm experience. The weeks and months ahead will no doubt present us with new challenges.

We have a new governor, Kathy Hochul, who has hit the ground JERRY running, and established herKREMER self as a major political figure.

She has appointed a number of highly experienced staff members, and will make many more changes in order to erase the Cuomo footprint. Her new head of the Department of Financial Services is Adrienne Harris, who has worked as a special assistant to the White House and a senior adviser in the U.S. Treasury Department. DFS is a

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complex agency, and needs a level-headed leader.

Hochul has not been reluctant to wade into controversial areas. She has signed an executive order to require masks in all schools, and is pushing hard to get unvaccinated New Yorkers to get their shots as soon as possible. She called a special session of the Legislature to extend the eviction moratorium and also to move forward on the legalization of marijuana. Up to this point, the state had done a miserable job of distributing federal funds to New Yorkers who are behind on their rent.

Like many appointed public officials who plan to seek election to their new positions, she has a short time to establish herself as a strong governor, in the hope that she can ward off a 2022 primary challenge. The legislative leaders are making a sincere attempt to work with her, many out of relief that the Cuomo era is over. But time will tell whether they can work as an effective team, because Albany is a place where egos can collide on a moment’s notice.

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While many of us were lounging on a beach or escaping on a golf course, politicians around the country were doing loads of mischief. Despite the fact that at least six states were all but drowning in Covid cases thanks to the Delta variant, their governors were busy banning mask mandates and telling everyone to make believe the disease had disappeared. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose state is racking up new cases, is actively battling school districts and cruise lines, who are just trying to keep people of all ages from getting sick.

The so-called red state governors are having a field day passing laws intended to restrict people from voting and to ban virtually all abortions. To date, over 400 laws have been introduced in 38 states to restrict the general public’s, and especially minorities’, opportunities to vote. The Texas legislature has passed a law banning abortions six weeks after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Having four daughters, I’ve learned that most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that stage.

In June, a number of states with

ed state governors are having a field day passing restrictive voting laws.

Republican governors decided that people were declining to go to work because they were getting an extra $300 in federal unemployment benefits. Assuming that those people were all a bunch of slackers, state officials decided to stop giving out the federal dollars, assuming that this would force the recipients to leave home and go back to work. Their judgment has proven wrong, as unemployment statistics haven’t changed, and the people who were staying home continued to do so.

A final note about who’s running for public office these days. It seems that during the past year, there were 23 new people elected to the State Legislature. Only six had any government experience, and four had held a job in the private sector.

That left 13 who came into public office with few if any credentials. There’s no moral to this story. It’s just circumstantial evidence that it’s hard to find experienced people to run for office, and that’s a big loss for all of us.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column?

JKremer@liherald.com.

A dog’s tale: the view from inside the canine carry-on

can’t stretch out, I can hardy breathe, but even inside this dog carrier, the air is better than the smoke out in Lake Tahoe. As the family pet, I went along on the summer vacation out West. Think of me as your four-legged eyewitness to one family’s encounter with environmental disaster.

As my human reported last week, we headed to Tahoe last month to visit kids and grandkids. We expected a month of R&R on the Truckee River. My human dad, superanxious about the RANDI trip, fixated on my KREISS food and my, um, movements. I’m not talking Beethoven. He carried blue New York Times plastic bags across the country because those are his favorite disposables.

We flew to Denver and drove 16 hours to Tahoe. A different hotel every night, weird hallway smells, walks on scorching asphalt and very super-sized people not wearing masks, which I resent because if something happens to my humans, I’m toast.

In Tahoe, we stayed at my sister’s house and at a rental house in the moun-

tains. My sister has a new, irritating puppy. He ate my food and chewed up my travel bed. He sneaked up on me and jumped on my back for reasons I don’t understand. The rental house was worse.

At night I walked outside in blackout conditions, the heavy musk of bear in the air.

Then smoke from the fires swept into Tahoe and smothered our air. People have no idea how ash and the absence of any poopworthy grass can affect a dog.

Then the humans started to misbehave. Tensions escalated into tiffs, and sniping ensued. Someone growled, “Who’s idea was it to come out here, anyway?”

And, “Who peed in the kitchen?”

The humans clearly had no idea what to do. Some knucklehead decided that an escape to San Francisco would work. Did I have a say?

New hotel room, new “pet relief ” area.

So stressful. My human dad brought along the blue plastic Times bags because sometimes even humans need comfort toys.

The San Francisco air was clear and in the “healthy” range on www.airnow.com.

While I cooled my paws in the hotel, my people walked the Embarcadero and

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toured the Botanical Gardens. But it was all an illusion of relief.

Back in Tahoe, air quality misery was now compounded by “extremely high and dangerous risk of fire.” CalFire texted that news to people’s phones every few hours.

We moved yet again, from the rental house back to my sister’s house, just for safety, to be under one roof.

That meant back to the devil dog.

Family tensions erupted again. Light the grill or don’t risk a spark? Walk me around the block or let me roam the yard? Take the kids to town or hide from the smoke? Everyone was supercharged, and displaying all the symptoms of loving but dysfunctional families everywhere. Lots of shouting, some crying, endless couldhave, should-have, and who’s feeding the dogs? I’m here to tell you that either no one fed me or everyone fed me. I hate when the humans become unreliable.

After a few days of simmering under one roof, my humans decided to leave, give up the rental house a month early, return our car to the wrong location (Reno instead of Denver) fly out of Reno ASAP, and then home.

So I’m writing on the RNO-to-DEN leg.

ither no one fed me or everyone fed me.

I hate when the humans become unreliable.

I heard news of hurricane-remnant flooding in New York, but we’re homeward bound, escaping the fires and ready for the wind and rain. A leg up to my compatriots splashing through flooded streets.

Tomorrow we fly back to the God-blessAmerica-I-hope-I-never-travel-again-better-than-a-mound-of-peanut-butter-glorious East Coast. We worry about the family we left in Tahoe, and yeah, even the new puppy. How’s a little guy supposed to feel safe outside and comfortable inside when Noah’s Ark is burning? My humans’ grandkids just sent a photo of a bear looming at the edge of their property.

Who’s going to tell the little guy to stay away?

The kids have several plans in play while hoping for shifting winds. Meanwhile, we fly east.

It is undignified to travel inside a “doggie carry-on” bag, but I fell for the old peanut butter trick. She who shall not be named tossed a peanut butter cookie into the bag, and I dived for it. Again.

Over the past three weeks I have slept in nine different beds. Now we’re cruising at 34,000 feet and I’m in a canvas tote, stuffed under the seat of some overstuffed dude. Nothing seems quite right, even in a dog’s world.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Reflecting on the Sept. 11 attacks 20 years later

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he Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., set off a cascade of worldwide catastrophes over the subsequent two decades — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and many other terrorist attacks, in multiple countries. September 2001 seems like a lifetime ago, but for those old enough to remember that terrible year, it remains a haunting memory, a fever dream that we try to lock in the backs of our brains but is ever-present.

For those of us in Nassau County that day, we could only watch in horror as grayblack smoke plumes spiraled out of the twisted, shattered remains of the twin towers upward into an otherwise perfect azure sky. The plumes were visible from points across the county.

Shortly after the attacks, people started to gather on the beach in Lido and at the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick — the highest point on the South Shore — to watch the billowing smoke, staring silently in stunned disbelief.

The United States homeland was under attack for the first time since World War II, and at that moment, we had no idea who the invader was, or the future suffering in distant lands that the attacks would bring.

It was all incomprehensibly terrifying.

In a front-page story in the Heralds’ Sept. 13-19 issue, “Terror at the Towers,” reported by Scott Brinton, Carrie James, Laura Lane, Jeff Lipton, Larry Maier and Cindy Roth, this is how we described the scene: “A wave of fear and despair raced across [Nassau County] Tuesday morning

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’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really, really scared.

ROLLEN CAJOLES after terrorists slammed two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center, sending the Twin Towers crumbling into Lower Manhattan.

“In the afternoon, surviving victims of the attack filtered into Nassau by Long Island Rail Road, like refugees from a war zone. Many, who were still shaking dusty, white debris from their clothes, were not from the area but had taken the first train they could out of the city and gotten off at the first possible stop.”

We sent our reporters to the train stations to meet the survivors of the attacks.

Sylvia Melendez, who worked in Lower Manhattan, described the chaos after the towers crashed to the ground. “The rush of clouds of debris forced everyone out into the streets,” she said. “Everyone was running away.”

Here in Nassau, people were glued to their TVs and radios, watching and listening, hoping for the best but fearing the worst. “I’ve been listening all morning,” Luisa DeGirolamo, who worked at La Margherita Pastry Shop in Bellmore Village, said. “I’m devastated. I can’t get over it.”

Rollen Cagoles, of East Meadow, said, “I’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really,

LETTERS A letter to Governor Hochul To the Editor: Congratulations and good luck to Gov. Kathy Hochul. She has been thrust into a role that is critical to the 19.45 million people who live, work and play in the Empire State. Here on Long Island, we are especially hopeful for her good work.

The challenges on Long Island are many. Our aging infrastructure needs serious attention. As the nation’s first suburb, we are living with an antiquated system that requires an upgrade. Our increasingly overburdened roadways, bridges and tunnels are dismal.

The environmental infrastructure is failing.

Drinking water has challenges, including the quality and quantity. Surface water contamination is rampant from nitrogen and other pollutants entering our creeks, bays, harbors and the Long Island Sound. Our air is polluted with toxins too small to see with the naked eye. We are vulnerable to sea level rise, climate change and the inevitable next big storm. The fact is, we aren’t ready.

Our environment is too important for the noaction tendencies of the past to continue. Our

really scared.”

Many parents rushed to their children’s schools to pick them up and take them home, fearful of further attacks. “A lot of people came and pulled their kids out because they didn’t want them to be in a place with a large group of people,” said Pat Brace, PTA president of Bowling Green Elementary School in East Meadow.

“They thought they would be a target.”

Nassau police doubled patrols around municipal buildings, schools, houses of worship and transportation lines. Police also diverted westbound traffic away from New York City. Motorists who had to travel major thoroughfares were advised to stay home.

The military closed down the airspace over Long Island, with unlighted F-16 fighter jets streaking overhead above John F. Kennedy International Airport into the night of Sept. 11 to 12.

Nearly 500 Long Islanders died in the attacks at the World Trade Center or later succumbed to 9/11-related illnesses. Each one was a life extinguished too soon. We must remember all of them — their essential goodness, their essential humanity.

In the coming days, there will be solemn ceremonies in remembrance of the dead.

Consider attending one to show your support for the victims, or stop and pause for a moment at 8:46 and 9:04 a.m. on Saturday and reflect on or say a prayer for the victims. In this way, you will help to keep their memories alive for generations to come. “Never forget” should never become a trite slogan. It should be a motto by which we live.

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hen talking with my grandkids about returning to school this fall — to the building, with other kids, not the dining room table — I was reminded of a school day of my own years ago.

“Bobby.” I heard my name called on the second-floor landing of A. B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, N.Y. The caller was Mr. Leone, Joseph Leone, my biology teacher and college adviser. “Why haven’t you signed up for ROBERT A. the SATs?” he asked.

SCOTT Neither of my parents had attended college, my mother had died eight years earlier, and my father, a vacuum cleaner salesman, had his hands full with two active kids. When I think about the controversies surrounding school openings this fall, I think, too, of the critical role of teachers in the lives of their students.

That certainly was the case for me.

Mr. Leone wasn’t alone in affecting my life for the better. I was going to drop out of college after my first year not only because of the cost, but also because I

questioned why I was there. I entered to be a minister, but had become disillusioned with organized religion. My college adviser, Mildred Martin, helped me sort through the financial and philosophical questions and urged me to appeal my financial aid award, and I continued as her student.

Other teachers stand out as well. Miss Calabrese and Miss King, in elementary school, “Pop” Phillips in high school, Mark Ebersole in college, and Kay Moore and Robin Williams in graduate school.

The past year of living and learning with Covid in our path and in our shadows revealed the inequalities of access to teachers like the ones I’ve known. When teachers are diverted from their main responsibilities, teaching and advising, they can’t fulfill their roles to the fullest. It is especially difficult for them to be effective when students lack access to broadband and Wi-Fi, a quiet place to study, and supportive adults to help them with difficult assignments.

A distinguished psychologist once said that we human beings are the “teaching species.” All species must learn enough to leave the nest, but humans turned teaching into a “calling,” a vocation dedicated to preparing the next generation

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was going to drop out of college after my first year. I questioned why I was there.

LETTERS looming issues need real solutions, not lip service. We need to address the Island’s solid-waste crisis, illegal dumping and the associated increases in disposal costs.

Hochul hasn’t been handed the reins of the state at our finest hour. New Yorkers suffer with an unsustainable tax burden that’s accelerating the exodus of high-net-worth people, employers and job creators. The growing disparity in income and wealth, an increasing immigrant population and the associated educational and health care challenges are monumental. And our young workforce and empty-nesters are leaving because of a lack of affordable housing.

Leaders in the past have forsaken us in favor of book deals, their own selfish agendas and their next election. Indeed, some are in prison for their bad behavior, but the reality is, the good people of New York have been sold out, and that’s why we require Hochul’s earnest leadership.

We have hope in her vision, fortitude and ability to make the really tough decisions. We’re counting on her. Most important, please know that we are here for you, governor. Long Island and the state of New York have immense resources, none greater than their residents.

There will be vocal naysayers who attempt to stop Hochul from addressing these vexing challenges. There are people who talk a lot, and there are people who get stuff done. To Hochul, I say this:

with knowledge, skills and values. As a result, teachers have a moral, social, civic and historical responsibility for not only educating each new generation but also, in this way, creating the future.

We must remember the vocation, the calling, of teaching. As the historian Jacques Barzun said, “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

At the beginning of our nation, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stated that public education was at the heart of democracy.

“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it,” Adams wrote. “There should not be a district of one mile square without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

Jefferson expressed similar sentiments. It is unfortunate, therefore, that some local school boards see teachers simply as employees, instead of as those who inspire discovery and awaken students’ imaginations, as Mark Van Doren and Robert Frost said.

But while the Founders argued that schooling was a local responsibility, they were adamant about the public benefits

to the nation. They believed that education should be public; is critical to democracy because it prepares an informed citizenry, able to ask questions; is important because it prevents aristocracy and promotes meritocracy; should be free from religion and ideology; should be equal and equally available to all citizens; and is a public investment that is worth the cost.

While the ideals of the Founders foundered on the compromises made to create a republic, they nevertheless created within the Constitution the mechanisms for correcting early mistakes and providing the means for continuing the pursuit of a “more perfect union,” which we have shown the ability to do.

As we help our kids and grandkids, or relatives or neighbors’ kids, prepare for a new school year, let us acknowledge the noble profession of teaching, perhaps by remembering our own teachers, and do what we can to fulfill the Founders’ aspirations for true equality of education in America.

Robert A. Scott, Ph.D., is president emeritus of Adelphi University; the author of, or contributor to, 18 books and monographs; and the author of hundreds of articles on higher education and social issues. His latest book is “How University Boards Work” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Eric Hoffer Prize awardee, 2019).

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Please be the latter. Be bold. We heard you say you’d “fight like hell for New York,” and that’s exactly what Long Island needs.

WILL FLOWER Bayville

Cuomo should be impeached To the Editor: Re Robert Rosenberg’s column “History repeats itself in Albany — again and again” (Aug. 26-Sept. 1): I agree with Rosenberg’s opinions, and would add that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo would indeed get the last hurrah and make “the State Legislature and state government look like a ship of fools” if it gave him a free pass on the nursing home deaths scandal and his subsequent cooking of the books to make it appear less egregious than he would have had us believe. Interestingly, Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed immediately that these deaths were undercounted by some 12,000.

By ordering nursing homes to accept Covid-19 patients, Cuomo, threatening owners with penalty if they did not comply, exposed many more confined elderly to the virus, potentially causing their deaths. With all due respect, I consider manslaughter to be an even more serious

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crime than the sexual harassment charges that forced Cuomo’s resignation.

Given the present state of affairs, it is now the State Legislature (and, ultimately, the State Senate) that is on trial, and it remains to be seen whether playing politics will take precedence over what must be done in the name of justice. How can

anyone trust Cuomo now? He contends that he will not seek future political office, but only impeachment would close the book on that possibility, definitively and conclusively.

ROBERT RUBALSKY East Rockaway

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